Just Because Music — Pointer Sisters’ Jump
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Just Because Music — Glen Campbell’s Southern Nights
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Continue readingSaner heads are trying to prevail in San Francisco
At least one less extreme Democrat in San Francisco is very worried about the hardcore Leftism that has taken root and flourished in the City. A City that was always to the lefter side of the political spectrum now has the potential to devolve into the kind of ideological Leftism
Continue readingMark Steyn on Democratic strategy and cowardice
As they usually do, the Democrats have picked a non-violent party and tarred it with the extremist brush (that would be Democrats v. Tea Partiers), while ignoring and abasing themselves before a genuinely threatening movement (that would be Democrats v. radical Islamists). And as always, Mark Steyn ties everything effortlessly
Continue readingStand and be counted
You’ll see a very effective video from Remember November here, and you’ll get a chance to sign up for an email service that will keep that memory alive. My son watched the video and said “that’s creepy.” He didn’t get the political references, but he sure caught the tone.
Continue readingWatcher’s council’s winners, both last week and this week
Since I was traveling last week, I didn’t get a chance to post the winner’s for that week, and I haven’t yet posted the winner’s for this week. As happens every week, I struggle mightily casting my vote, since the contributions are invariably good, and then I find myself in
Continue readingSan Francisco protests on a silver platter
I’m all for reducing pollution, but we don’t need a trumped-up excuse like “climate change” in order to achieve a cleaner environment. Minimizing pollution is a legitimate goal which stands on its own merits; concocting hysterical disaster scenarios (such as those shown in An Inconvenient Truth) only serves to undermine
Continue readingMatched story sets on freedom of association and recycling
Yes, my friends, it’s matched set time again. I just love pairing stories (or, here, a prescient video and a current story), for your enjoyment and edification. I’ll start first with a couple of stories that have their genesis in San Francisco and that have made it to the media
Continue readingThe problem with identity politics is that humans defy simple classifications
I wrote yesterday about the softball players who were accused of being “not gay enough.” I appreciate that the league in question has its rules — you must be gay — but the story still got me thinking about what constitutes being gay. From there, of course, I started thinking
Continue readingWhy I’m holding my tongue on the home front
I am, as you’ve all probably gathered by now, an almost excessively verbal person. The old expression “She can talk the hind leg off a donkey” was invented with someone like me in mind. Given the opportunity, I can sustain an entire conversation single-handedly. (I think it might be called
Continue readingSometimes it takes a little while for the illogic to sink in
I’m in San Francisco on a fairly regular basis, which has given me ample time to see, repeatedly, ads on the side of MUNI buses. I can’t remember the wording, since I only see these ads for instants at a time, but they pretty much say, “Fill out the census,
Continue readingThis is just too cool — way too cool
You can see it here, at Rush’s website, but Andrea Shea King, at the Radio Patriot, did a close up for me: I would be an unconscionable liar if I didn’t say that my ego is reaching dangerously unhealthy proportions.
Continue readingThursday night round-up — and Open Thread *UPDATED*
Oh, my gosh! Have I got good stuff here for all of you. Rush. Need I say more? Actually, just so you know what you’re linking too, Rush manages to combine into one lucid post American exceptionalism and Clintonian hypocrisy. Whew! [UPDATE: Soccer Dad, every bit as wise as Rush,
Continue readingThe difference between the Soviet Union and Iran
In his excellent post about the myriad flaws in the administration’s probable (and inchoate) containment plan for Iran, Max Boot makes a very important point, one I’ve somehow missed when reading others on the same subject. He argues that Leftist nostalgic for the realpolitik of the Cold War, which saw
Continue readingWhere to find the post Rush read
To those of you who have come here to find the post Rush read on his show, here’s the link. Thank you very much for coming. I hope to see you here again.
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